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openSUSE 2025:0005-1 important: liboqs, oqs-provider security patch

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Calendar Grey January 2, 2025
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A critical patch for liboqs and oqs-provider rectifies significant vulnerabilities while upgrading algorithms in openSUSE.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for liboqs, oqs-provider fixes the following issues:

This update supplies the new FIPS standardized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, SHL-DSA

algorithms.

This update liboqs to 0.12.0:

* This release updates the ML-DSA implementation to the final FIPS 204

version. This release still includes the NIST Round 3 version of Dilithium

for interoperability purposes, but we plan to remove Dilithium Round 3 in a

future release.

* This will be the last release of liboqs to include Kyber (that is, the NIST

Round 3 version of Kyber, prior to its standardization by NIST as ML-KEM in

FIPS 203). Applications should switch to ML-KEM (FIPS 203).

* The addition of ML-DSA FIPS 204 final version to liboqs has introduced a new

signature API which includes a context string parameter. We are planning to

remove the old version of the API without a context string in the next

release to streamline the API and bring it in line with NIST specifications.

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* openSUSE Leap 15.6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2025-5=1 openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-5=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-5=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64 i586)

* oqs-provider-debuginfo-0.7.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-debuginfo-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* oqs-provider-0.7.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs-devel-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (x86_64)

* liboqs7-32bit-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-32bit-debuginfo-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs-devel-32bit-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64_ilp32)

* liboqs7-64bit-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs-devel-64bit-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-64bit-debuginfo-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* oqs-provider-debuginfo-0.7.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-debuginfo-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* oqs-provider-0.7.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs7-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

* liboqs-devel-0.12.0-150600.3.3.1

References

* bsc#1226162

* bsc#1226468

* bsc#1234292

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-36405.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-37305.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-54137.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226162

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226468

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1234292

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:0005-1
Release Date: 2025-01-02T08:01:46Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6

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